> Given this, I do not believe it is proper for firebird to
> implement any kind of metadata copy protection. Since this
> sort of thing depends on obscurity, rather than the action
> of a particular algorithm, having the source available
> makes it easier to defeat.

Thank you. That is what I was trying to say in the first place, but I
was not sufficiently eloquent to be understood.

Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing